m0darn @ m0darn @lemmy.ca

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The water in my community has poison added to it by my local government. It's a poison so heinous its usage is banned in war. It affects the clarity and taste of the water. No matter how many letters I write they are totally unwilling to stop chlorinating the water. It's outrageous!

Is there a way to set up patreon for any ad free website I browse?

Could my browser have some sort of cryptographically signed cookie that would let ad-free websites deduct 1-5 cents from my browsing account?

Website could check for the cookie before loading the ads?

Has this been tried?

Isn't BYD the world's #1 or #2 battery company?

They ought to respect consumer protections and warranty laws but I don't think dismissal of their batteries outright makes sense.

I would worry about it yeah. Also nobody buys a pint of haagen daas with the money they need to survive, and it will be obvious to them that it's been melted and refrozen.

Ice cream is better imo because you're less likely to kill somebody

I think you deleted a sentence or something. Your 5% number is to do with the opportunity cost? So you're saying that the project cost Vancouver 5% of 31.8M ie 1.6M. That makes sense.

I think comparing it to the cost of a single duplex is a good way to provide context.

But the city didn't buy the units, they only catalyzed their construction. So it's not a perfect analogy.

Another short coming of your analysis is that the estimated cost of the loan is ignoring the risk of default. What if the contractor spends the money, but fails to complete the project? Or builds it but cuts a bunch of corners and gets sued into bankruptcy?

The risk of that is the real cost of the project. But overall I like your analysis, thanks for bringing it up.

Dead Harambe timeline

MAID accounts 4.1% of deaths and, if current trends continue, will grow by 35% per year! That means that in two years 79.1% of Canadians will be Murdered by Trudeau's health care!!!!!!!!!

-idiots

Do they not count the present value of an annuity when calculating net worth? Seems like a major oversight.

Is that what we call Beaver Belly in Canada? (from drinking contaminated water?)

Yeah I get that there isn't much direct evidence of Jesus. But when you say "Saul had his own thing going on, which wasn't entirely popular" aren't you referring to his persecution of Christians?

I thought my question was pretty simple: if Jesus didn't exist, where did the early Christians (that Saul was persecuting) come from?

We have letters from Paul, because he sent them to other Christian communities. Where did those communities come from?

My question was in regard to the part of the comment:

{The Birth of Jesus} ...if it happened at all, which is up for debate...

I'm always intrigued by this sort of hypothesis, can you recommend a good link to an alternative explanation for the early church?

Like I get that early Christians worked in a lot (LOT) of existing mythology to make Christianity palatable/ relatable to various local groups. But where could the early Christians have come from if not a Jesus like figure?

Yeah. Actually he seems like he'd be totally okay with you having a beer

What's your point?

Me too, should we start a community for accidental criminals?

Edit to add: I accidentally shoplifted shoelaces. I put them in the breast pocket of my shirt while looking for a few other things in the store. I think I left without buying anything at all.

Idon't think that's a warship (although I do concede it's gathering intel) and it's a 1500km boat ride away from Canada's territorial waters.

1500km is about twice the length of Canada's pacific coast (Southern tip of Vancouver Island, to Northern tip of Haida Gwaii)

My view is that the condition of the arctic ice cap is of global interest, but China's claim to be an arctic nation is total garbage.

Canada probably should take steps to further assert sovereignty over its arctic archipelago (and the associated searoute), but I still feel that the comment I was responding to was spreading alarmist junk.

Could you give an example of a Chinese warship entering Canadian waters?

It seems that there is a lot of moving parts to this story and the article reports some eventsand quotes but doesn't really string them together coherently. The Liberal MP that's accused of trying to shift the discussion to abortion rights had some procedural complaints about the way the Conservative meeting chair set up the meeting, and argued that they were changing the topic away from abortion. Is there any merit to that complaint? It's the sort of thing an article needs to address.

Sorry that it has taken me a long time to respond, I've been at the cabin, away from my phone.

Yeah the problem is that because of the history of discrimination we don't have words for relatively harmless discriminatory tendencies. So if I were to say

I have racist tendencies

it sounds like I'm admitting to being a "capital R" racist, when what I mean is,

I was taught incorrect stereotypes by media as a child, and sometimes despite my best efforts to be egalitarian, these biases cause me to make bad judgements. I try to notice when this happens, to make sure I treat people fairly.

Yeah I'm not saying anyone is a jerk for having sexual interest only with feminine people with vaginas and boobs, I'm just saying that it's kinda trans-erasure (and therefore technically transphobic) to say

I'm exclusively attracted to cis-women

Because a person doesn't know the assigned birth sex of every woman they've ever been attracted to.

OurToothbrush was offended because she is a transwoman and attracts men that think they're exclusively attracted to cis-women. She's on the front line of transphobia, and searching for a partner puts her at a too real risk of being murdered by a transphobe.

Yeah it sounds like absolution is a relevant term. People like to think that there are only biological males and biological females and that's that. It's not that simple. People like to think that there are racists and non-racists and that's that. It's not that simple. People like to think that there are transphobes and non-transphobes and that's that. It's not that simple. To me, being an ally is is about supporting a community to defeat unfair discrimination. Imo supporting individuals with friendship isn't exactly the same but it's better than nothing.